Section 3

The herb is used with flowers or collected without flowers from May 15 to June 15. The fresh plant contains: essential oil, protoanemonin, phytoncides, alkaloids, saponins, vitamins, in the dry herb of prostrelus: tannins, glucoside-like, alkaloid-like and resinous substances, more than 20 different macro- and microelements, protoanemonin was not found.

Common turnip is a perennial of the rose-flower family. The stem is straight, strong, 30-100 cm and taller. The plant is covered with hairs. The lower leaves in the root rosette are discontinuously feathery, grayish underneath. Flowers are yellow, small, in long spike-like inflorescences. Common turnip blooms from June to August. Fruits are stubby, tenacious seeds. Common turnip grows everywhere among shrubs, on forest edges, slopes, dry meadows, hills, glades and other places.

In recent years, it has been found that licorice has a more versatile biological activity. From it substances close in structure to the hormones of the adrenal cortex have been isolated, which have an action similar to that of deoxycorticosterone - anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer, anti-allergic, anti-sclerotic, antispasmodic, antibiotic, antibiotic, antitumor, biostimulant, antitumor, antidote, wound healing, as well as regulating water-salt metabolism, reducing the acidity of gastric juice and stimulating the synthesis of endogenous adrenal hormones.

Buds and annual needles of pine trees are used for medicinal purposes; in everyday life - oleoresin (resin) and products of its processing (turpentine, rosin, tar) and young cones. The buds contain essential oil, resins, vitamins C, K, tannins and bitter substances, mineral salts. Winter pine needles are rich in vitamins C, K, E, carotene, and also contain terpenes, alkaloids, phytoncides; oleoresin contains up to 35% essential oil and resin acids.

Steelwort is used in medicine for hemorrhoids, rectal fissures and chronic constipation, uterine bleeding, especially at menopause. In folk medicine is also used for inflammation and kidney stones and bladder stones, prostatitis, gout, arthrosis, rheumatism, various edema, dropsy, headaches, epilepsy, bleeding, infertility and other diseases, externally baths - in chronic dermatoses: eczema, acne, rashes, scrofula, furunculosis (in addition to internal use).

In folk medicine, wheatgrass is also used for various internal and external bleeding, gastritis, colitis, neuroses, palpitations, headaches, diarrhea, tuberculosis and lung abscess, scurvy, diabetes and other diseases. Widely used it externally in the form of compresses, lotions, tampons, tampons, sphincters from the infusion of wheat grass, as well as ointments in the treatment of wounds, ulcers, burns, fistulas, erosions of the cervix, etc. Powder of wheat grass sprinkle on the skin with wet eczema, lichen planus and prolapse of hemorrhoidal bleeding nodes as a styptic agent (A. P. Levchuk).

In folk medicine used for prolonged cough, bronchial asthma, diarrhea, scrofulosis, diseases of the heart, kidney, bladder, joints, rheumatism, gout, palpitations, cramps, inflammation of the upper respiratory tract, colds, edema, depressed mood, cancer of the uterus and other organs, skin cancer, as well as for the prevention of tumor metastases after surgery. Externally - in the form of fresh juice, lotions, washes, compresses, baths from the infusion (decoction) - in purulent wounds, ulcers, scrofula, boils, boils, scabies, cutaneous lupus erythematosus, head parsha, lichen planus, hemorrhoids and allergic skin diseases. From the infusion of tatarnik flowers put lotions for eye diseases. In the decoction of the root of the tartar make baths for eczema. From young sprouts shoots, roots and leaves of tartar can be prepared soups, borscht, soup purees, seasonings.

There are 9 species of yarrow in Donbas, including pannonian yarrow (A. pannonica Schule) and small-flowered yarrow (A. micrantha Willd). Yarrow pannonian grows everywhere in many areas, and the second - in the Seversky Donets valley. The leaves of Pannonian yarrow are dark green and smaller than those of common yarrow. N. A. Kaloshina found that these two species are promising for biologically active flavonoids and should be harvested.

Violet field violet has expectorant, anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatic, anti-inflammatory, tonic, diuretic, emollient, diaphoretic, blood purifying, disinfectant action, and also promotes uterine contraction in the postpartum period and normalizes metabolism.

It is used in folk medicine for inflammation of the respiratory tract (cough) and gastrointestinal tract (diarrhea), as well as colds, lymphoma, headache, peptic ulcer and female diseases, externally leaves are applied to lichen, make poultices for boils, joint pain and other diseases, some of the powder of leaves make ointment, in the ratio of 1 part raw material to 1 part fat, which rubbed from colds.